Intersections of gender, religion and ethnicity in the Middle Ages / edited by Cordelia Beattie, Kirsten A. Fenton.

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2011
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This volume advances the study of medieval gender, which in recent years has started to pay more attention to how gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly sexuality but also religion and ethnicity, which are closely connected. It considers these intersections through a number of case studies from the years c. 800-1500, with a particular focus on c.1050-1150. This was a time of much debate about the renewed emphasis on clerical chastity and its implications for the relationship between gender, sexuality, and authority. It was also the era of the First Crusade and its linked attacks on Jews at home. Each chapter in the volume suggests new ways of looking at key topics and debates, including the Herrenfrage, Orientalism, and postcolonial theory.

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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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x, 220 pages ; 23 cm.

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Contents

Introduction: Gender, Power, and Difference / C. Beattie -- 'In what way can those who have left the world be distinguished?': Masculinity and the Difference between Carolingian Men / R. Stone -- Ruling Masculinities: From Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201b / C. Braun Pasternack -- The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century / W.M. Aird -- Medieval Jewish/Christian Debate and the Question of Gender: Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Iudei et Christiani / S.F. Kruger -- Gender, Jewish Creditors and Christian Debtors in Thirteenth-Century Exeter / H. Meyer -- Gendering the First Crusade in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum / K.A. Fenton -- Prince Bohemond, Princess Melaz, and the Gendering of Religious Difference in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis / S. Yarrow -- Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of the Man of Law's Tale, the Monk's Tale and the Knight's Tale / J. Dor -- Warriors, Amazons and Isles of Women: Medieval Travel Writing and Constructions of Asian Feminities / K.M. Phillips.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780230579927
  • 0230579922